Goat Horn

Goat Horn

Rarity tier	Uncommon
Use cooldown	7 seconds (140 ticks)
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

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A goat horn is a horn dropped by goats. It has eight variants, and each plays a unique sound when used which can be heard by players in a large radius.

Obtaining

Mob loot

A horn is dropped when an adult goat rams a tree or any other hard block that occurs naturally where goats spawn. These include stone, coal ore, copper ore, iron ore, emerald ore, log, or packed ice. Goats do not ram other solid blocks. In Java Edition, these blocks are listed under the snaps_goat_horn tag, and can be modified by data packs.

Up to two horns can be dropped from an adult goat, or one horn if the goat spawned with only one horn. Regular goats may drop the "Ponder", "Sing", "Seek", and "Feel" horns, while screaming goats drop the "Admire", "Call", "Yearn", and "Dream" horns. A specific goat drops only one type of horn; that is, if a goat drops a "Sing" horn, its other horn is also a "Sing" horn.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Goat Horn	Pillager Outpost	Chest	1	50% { "item": "Goat Horn", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.5, "structure": "Pillager Outpost", "container": "Chest" }

Usage

When used, they play a loud sound that can be heard from up to 256 blocks, but are also limited by the server view distance. Each horn variant plays a unique sound. There are eight variants, four of which are exclusive to screaming goats.

There is a cooldown of seven seconds between each use of the horn. All goat horns are affected by this cooldown, so a player will be unable to bypass it by switching to another horn. However, the cooldown is limited to the player who used the horn, allowing multiple players to blow multiple horns in rapid succession.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Goat Horn breaks off	Friendly Mobs	When a goat's horn breaks off	entity.goat.horn_break	subtitles.entity.goat.horn_break​	0.9	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​ ?	Hostile Mobs	When a goat's horn breaks off	mob.goat.horn_break	​ ?	1.0	1.0

Playing

Java Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Ponder"	item.goat_horn.sound.0	subtitles.item.goat_horn.play​	16.0	1.0	256
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Sing"	item.goat_horn.sound.1	subtitles.item.goat_horn.play​	16.0	1.0	256
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Seek"	item.goat_horn.sound.2	subtitles.item.goat_horn.play​	16.0	1.0	256
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Feel"	item.goat_horn.sound.3	subtitles.item.goat_horn.play​	16.0	1.0	256
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Admire"	item.goat_horn.sound.4	subtitles.item.goat_horn.play​	16.0	1.0	256
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Call"	item.goat_horn.sound.5	subtitles.item.goat_horn.play​	16.0	1.0	256
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Yearn"	item.goat_horn.sound.6	subtitles.item.goat_horn.play​	16.0	1.0	256
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Dream"	item.goat_horn.sound.7	subtitles.item.goat_horn.play​	16.0	1.0	256

Bedrock Edition:

Sounds
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Ponder"	horn.call.0	​ ?	16.0	1.0
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Sing"	horn.call.1	​ ?	16.0	1.0
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Seek"	horn.call.2	​ ?	16.0	1.0
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Feel"	horn.call.3	​ ?	16.0	1.0
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Admire"	horn.call.4	​ ?	16.0	1.0
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Call"	horn.call.5	​ ?	16.0	1.0
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Yearn"	horn.call.6	​ ?	16.0	1.0
	​Goat horn plays	Jukebox/Note Blocks	"Dream"	horn.call.7	​ ?	16.0	1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Goat Horn	goat_horn	Item	item.minecraft.goat_horn instrument.minecraft.ponder_goat_horn instrument.minecraft.sing_goat_horn instrument.minecraft.seek_goat_horn instrument.minecraft.feel_goat_horn instrument.minecraft.admire_goat_horn instrument.minecraft.call_goat_horn instrument.minecraft.yearn_goat_horn instrument.minecraft.dream_goat_horn

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Goat Horn	goat_horn	624	Item	item.goat_horn.name item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.0 item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.1 item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.2 item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.3 item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.4 item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.5 item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.6 item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.7

Item data

Java Edition:

• [NBT Compound / JSON Object] components: the item's components tag.

• • [String][NBT Compound / JSON Object] minecraft:instrument: One instrument (an [String] ID, or a new [NBT Compound / JSON Object] instrument definition). If present on an item, the description of the instrument is shown in the item's tooltip as gray text.
    • An instrument see Template:Nbt inherit/instrument/template

Sound type	Identifier
Ponder	ponder_goat_horn
Sing	sing_goat_horn
Seek	seek_goat_horn
Feel	feel_goat_horn
Admire	admire_goat_horn
Call	call_goat_horn
Yearn	yearn_goat_horn
Dream	dream_goat_horn

History

Development

October 16, 2021							Ulraf, a game developer on Minecraft, states that goat horns are not included in Java Edition 1.18.
November 17, 2021							Goat horns are initially announced to be added after "The Wild Update".

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.19			22w17a				Added goat horns.
1.21.2			24w33a				The rarity of goat horns has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon".
1.21.11			25w41a				The animation for using a goat horn in first person has been lowered.

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.16.200 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.200.52				Added goat horns behind the "Caves and Cliffs" experimental toggle.
1.16.210 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.16.210.51				Goats now drop 2 horns each.
1.17.30 Experiment Caves and Cliffs			beta 1.17.20.20				Baby goats no longer drop horns.
1.18.0			beta 1.18.0.20				Goat horns are now available outside experimental gameplay.
1.18.0 Experiment Vanilla Experiments			beta 1.18.0.22				Goat horns have been moved behind the "Vanilla Experiments" experiments toggle.
1.18.30 Experiment Vanilla Experiments			Preview 1.18.20.24				Goat horns now have a cooldown after being used.
			Preview 1.18.20.26				Goat horns now have an animation when being used in first person.
							Goats now make a sound when they drop goat horns.
			Preview 1.18.30.27				Goat horns are now used to craft copper horns.
							Changed goat horn sounds.
1.19.0 Experiment Vanilla Experiments			Preview 1.19.0.25				Goat horns are no longer used to craft copper horns, as copper horns have been removed.
							Changed goat horn sounds.[verify]
							Removed "Fly" and "Dream" goat horns.
							Updating a world that previously contained the "Fly" goat horn and "Dream" goat horn to this version or later would convert them to invalid goat horns, labeled "item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.8" and "item.minecraft.goat_horn.sound.9" respectively, thus allowing them to be obtained in survival mode.
1.19.0			Preview 1.19.0.29				Goat horns are now available without enabling experimental gameplay again.
1.19.10			Preview 1.19.10.22				Renamed the "Resist" goat horn to the "Dream" goat horn to match Java Edition.
							The "Feel" goat horn now plays the same sound as Java Edition.
1.20.40			Preview 1.20.40.22				The maximum range at which goat horns are audible has been increased from 16 to 256 blocks.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.21				The rarity of goat horns has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon".
26.0			Preview 26.0.23				Specific invalid goat horns now play "Dream" when being used, instead of other in-game sound.

Issues

Issues relating to "Goat Horn" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• The "seek" horn is the same as the "ominous horn" that announces a raid.
• The "call" horn sounds very similar to the iconic THX intro.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Steve using a goat horn.
• 
  Alex using a goat horn.
• 
  The goat horn animation in first person.
• 
  The goat horn animation with "Left Hand" option enabled.
• 
  The goat horn animation on java edition after 25w41a

External links

• "Taking Inventory: Goat Horn" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, February 16, 2023.